The “transgender” obsession of recent history can be removed from society entirely, but it will require more people actively standing athwart the left’s attempts to normalize it, forcing institutions to confront reality.
The fight must exist in every facet of the issue, but perhaps nowhere is that more illustrative than in sports, which has seen a growing number of athletes resign from or speak out against competitions in which they face someone of the opposite sex — particularly when a male competes against a female.
Amid these protests, a growing number of major sports organizations have been doing the right thing by blocking male competitors from competing against females.
On Monday, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) effectively banned males from competing in women’s Olympic sports. They did it quietly, fairly ambiguously, and without much detail on how they would ensure that would happen, but the USOPC directly cited President Donald Trump’s executive order called “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” in its policy, stating it will “ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201.”
USOPC’s rule change appears to come as pressure from that order, and also comes ahead of the United States hosting the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, preparations for which are already underway.
Many American sports organizations have obviously felt similar pressure to change their policies previously allowing those who claim to be “transgender” to compete with athletes of the opposite sex. However, changes from these organizations didn’t just follow the executive order, they came on the heels of individual athlete protests and public outcry supporting those protests.
Take Stephanie Turner, for instance, a fencer who was faced with having to compete against a male. In May, she testified before Congress that the United States Fencing Association (USFA) currently has over 200 members who claim to be “transgender,” noting that “fair, female-only competition is harder and harder to come by.”
“Fencing is a combat sport, a martial art of sorts. There are elements of speed, power, reaction time, distance control, footwork, and blade work — all attributes affected by sex development,” she said. “It’s unbelievably demeaning to female fencers to put down the differences between men and women and any woman’s loss to a man as a ‘skill issue’ or that a woman simply needs to work harder.”
She was brought to Congress to testify because she decided enough was enough and took a knee to resign the competition against a male athlete pretending to be a female. The video was shared around the internet, and she was lauded for her courage.
“I have decided to step away from the sport I love, at least for now, as well, because USA Fencing has fostered an environment where I am unwelcome in my own category,” she said in testimony, describing how she fought this issue for a long time. “It is culturally acceptable to bully and shame women who speak up for other women.”
As of July 18, however, USFA has finally decided to align its policy with Trump’s order to prevent men from competing in female competitions (although the USFA’s new policy, effective August 1, will allow “transgender men,” aka women, to compete in male competitions).
In one of the most high-profile cases, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) decided to settle a dispute with the Trump administration after allowing male swimmer “Lia” Thomas to steal a national championship from actual women. While UPenn agreed to recognize the rightful female athletes for their win, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) apparently has yet to rectify its records.
The NCAA did change its “transgender” policy quickly after Trump’s order, but on Tuesday, 27 state and one territory attorneys general sent a letter to NCAA president Charlie Baker, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, demanding the organization restore its athletic records, titles, awards, and recognitions to retroactively recognize that actual women won these competitions. Trump’s Department of Education sent a letter to Baker with the same request in February.
Other sports categories and organizations have taken steps toward fixing their “transgender” problem amid growing public protest. This includes the International Cycling Union, which announced in 2023 it would no longer allow cyclists who went through male puberty to compete in female events after American male Austin Killips won an official women’s cycling race.
World Aquatics and the World Athletics Council (which governs track and field) enacted similar puberty policies in recent years. Earlier this year, the World Boxing Organization said all athletes who want to compete will undergo sex testing.
There are multiple teams and states that clearly still refuse to recognize the reality of sex, where young women still need to protest.
While some forms of “protest” — ones that seem manufactured or paid for by left-wing special interests — are useless (and annoying), protest of this kind has been fruitful, and that’s because it is organic, genuine, righteous, and based in reality.